Do Liberals/the left fear and hate Happiness
I found this article today and it got me to remembering/thinking. I know that perceptions shape our 'reality' to a greater degree than most realize or imagine.Think on this, haven't you had a day you started out with a negative attitude and the whole day seemed to reflect the same until 'something' caused you to do an about face? Then looking at the same 'scenery', you saw it wasn't so bad after all? (And vice versa).
I not a comfortable 'joiner' or follower, so I'm always hesitant to align myself with any particular political or other agenda. I also feel that politic beliefs and religion are much the same in some respects and in polite society should not be discussed too openly lest said society cease to be polite - blogs being a usually safe exception.
Take the following observations into consideration before following the links to the article.
Less than 12% of the people who list their profession as media or journalistic based also classify themselves as conservative.
Media reporting, on any subject, almost without exception will focus on or find the most negative aspects of said story to report. If there is a choice between positive spin or negative spin, negative will rule in most instances.
If your profession, your entire work/life style encourages or requires a negative 'outlook', it will be a accelerating cycle of positive feedback; there is no inherent self correction to this cycle.
People who are inherently negative and/or depressed (take you choice) are VERY resistant to anything that would disturb that world view (been there, done that). To realize that the world is not all shades of black is a painful, no, excruciating realization. People, as a rule, are pain adverse, especially when it comes to questioning their own precepts. Negativism is self re-enforcing to a horrendous degree.
If this is the media/journalistic world view that is responsible for presenting your (organization/town/county/country) to the world, what do you think that presentation will look like? Can you, as the public, ever expect to see an accurate, or realistic presentation of the 'world' by such organizations?
Is it any surprise then, that bloggers and the internet are viewed with such alarm and fear by Mainstream Media?
Both liberals and media, are almost completely uniform in their negative view of America, American Voters, and of Americanism (i.e., the rightness of people to decide for themselves, democracy, and individual freedom). There is no sense of optimism, or of possibilities, rather a pervading sense of angst. Over this election cycle, and my continuing interest and research into blogging and the media, there is one almost universal statement among 'liberals' who now consider themselves to be conservative: "I was tired of the negativity" or " I was attracted to the optimism, the sense of possibilities in the conservative dialog."
If you examine and boil off all the Democratic rhetoric, you will find it is based on two overriding yet contradictory presumptions: The US is corrupt, corrupts all that it touches, and all its efforts are doomed to failure. (Quagmire anyone??). In the same breath, socialism (i.e. centralized big government) is good, individual choice/responsibility is bad - we are all victims.
Think about this the next time someone tries to tell you that the US has no business on the world stage, yet in the same breath tries to tell you that the answer to your 'problem' is another or bigger government program.
Read on this further by a psychologist who made a study of this.
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